And while it was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, Burroughs also produced related equipment as well, including typewriters and printers.

* Burroughs produced the B2500 or " medium systems " computers aimed primarily at the business world.

With licenses for characters from Walt Disney Productions, Warner Brothers, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Walter Lantz Studio, Western produced comics based on these characters, as well as original works.

The ECC also produces numerous audio experiments, such as the disfiguring of compact discs in live performance, known as " CDestruction ", and has produced a few video works as well, ranging from re-edited 50's corporate shorts to a Teddy Ruxpin reciting the works of William S. Burroughs.

Although previous artists such as William S. Burroughs had experimented with the idea of manipulating a reel to reel tape manually for the sounds produced ( such as with his 1950s recording, " Sound Piece "), vinyl scratching as an element of hip hop pioneered the idea of making the sound an integral and rhythmic part of music instead of uncontrolled noise.

The Beats also produced the first appearance of male homosexual champions of free love in the U. S., with writers such as Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

While in 1956 it branded as the B205 a machine produced by a company it bought, its first internally developed machine, the B5000, was designed in 1961 and Burroughs sought to address its late entry in the market with the strategy of a completely different design based on the most advanced computing ideas available at the time.

Further, Burroughs Corporation produced an RPG II compiler with database extensions for its B1700 series of computers.

One of the dramas produced from these courses became a show called The Wild Boys, based on the book by William Burroughs.

In 1987, Jackie Burroughs produced, directed, co-wrote, and starred in A Winter Tan, a film based on the letters of Maryse Holder, published in 1979 as the book Give Sorrow Words – Maryse Holder's Letters from Mexico.

Amicus Productions also produced a small number of science fiction films, with adaptations of several of the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

It was produced by Joe Burroughs and was scheduled to be broadcast in September 1956 ; however, it was later abandoned due to concerns over a possible action by Marianne Foyster.

Information on the Norden bombsight, which Burroughs produced beginning in 1942.

Although not usually identified as a genre writer, William S. Burroughs produced works with a surreal narrative that estranged the action from the ordinary world as science fiction and fantasy do.

Jacksonville has a college basketball program, which years ago produced professional basketball stars such as Artis Gilmore, Otis Smith, Pembrook Burroughs III and Rex Morgan.

While Burroughs is generally seen as a writer who produced work of limited philosophical value, Burroughs wrote two Barsoom novels, which appear to explore, or parody the limits of excessive intellectual development at the expense of bodily or physical existence.

Stuart J. Byrne ( who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym John Bloodstone ) produced a new Tarzan novel, Tarzan on Mars, but it remained unpublished because Palmer was unable to get authorization from the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

While in 1890, the Arithmometer was still the most produced mechanical calculator in the world, ten years later, by 1900, four machines, the Comptometer and Burroughs ' adding machine in the USA, Odhner's Arithmometer in Russia, and Brunsviga in Germany had passed it in volume of machines manufactured.

In addition to his collaborations with Burroughs, Giorno has produced 55 LPs, tapes, videos and books.

Greystoke rejected the common film portrayal of Tarzan as a simpleton that was established by Johnny Weissmuller's 1930s renditions, reasserting Burroughs ' characterization of an articulate and intelligent human being, not unlike the so-called " new look " films that Sy Weintraub produced in the 1960s.

Willner has produced albums for Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed, Bill Frisell, William S. Burroughs, Gavin Friday, Lucinda Williams, Laurie Anderson and Allen Ginsberg, among others.

Although readers had already complained about the suspense created at the end of A Princess of Mars, Burroughs once again, produced a story with a cliff hanger ending.

Mouth Almighty ’ s four-CD box set of readings by William Burroughs, produced by the poet John Giorno, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999.

In conjunction with these products, Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of cheque processing equipment, normally attached as terminals to a larger system such as a B2700 or B1700.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.

A noteworthy variation of this is found on the Burroughs B1700 where there is neither a bootstrap ROM nor a hardwired IPL operation.

The Burroughs B1000 Series of computers consisted of three major generations which were the B1700, B1800, and B1900 series machines originally introduced in the 1970s with continued software development until 1987.

Much original research for the B1700, initially codenamed the PLP (" Proper Language Processor " or " Program Language Processor "), was done at the Burroughs Pasadena plant.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " B1700 Design and Implementation ", Burroughs Corporation, Santa Barbara Plant, Goleta, California, May 1972.

* Wilner, Wayne T., " Microprogramming environment on the Burroughs B1700 ", IEEE CompCon ' 72

* Wilner, Wayne T., " Design of the Burroughs B1700 ", AFIPS ( American Federation of Information Processing Societies ) Joint Computer Conferences archive, Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, Fall Joint Computer Conference, Anaheim, California, 1972, pp. 489-497

* Wilner, Wayne T., " Burroughs B1700 memory utilization ", Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, Fall Joint Computer Conference, part I, December 05-07, 1972, Anaheim, California

Robert Stanley " Bob " Barton ( February 13, 1925 – January 28, 2009 ) was recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700, and a co-inventor of dataflow.

William S. Burroughs wrote about the candiru in his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, describing it as " a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in situ.

The early Nixie displays were made by a small vacuum tube manufacturer called Haydu Brothers Laboratories, and introduced in 1955 by Burroughs Corporation, who purchased Haydu and owned the name Nixie as a trademark.

In the 1970s, after GE sold its computer business to Honeywell and RCA sold its to Univac, the analogy to the seven dwarfs became less apt and the remaining small firms became known as the " BUNCH " ( Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell ).

Burroughs subdivided and sold the land for residential development with neighboring small farms following suit.

* Edgar Rice Burroughs ' influential A Princess of Mars ( 1912 ) describes an almost entirely desert Mars, with only one small body of liquid water on the surface ( though swamps and forests appear in the sequels ).

In 1857 Burroughs left a teaching position in the small village of Buffalo Grove in Illinois to seek employment closer to home, drawn back by " the girl I left behind me.

Burroughs Gardens is the location of a small Moroccan Synagogue ( Porat Yosef ).

He also gave art lessons, established a small art school in his studio, designed stain glass windows, and dabbled in science fiction art ( illustrating Edgar Rice Burroughs ’ A Princess of Mars ), he was known locally as the “ Dean of Delaware Artists .” Schoonover died at 94, leaving behind more than two thousand illustrations.

On September 1, 1927, Lou Burroughs and Al Kahn began a small business servicing radio receivers in South Bend, Indiana.